Obama's books fly off shelves

In the week since Election Day, sales of President-elect Barack Obama's books -- as well as books written about him -- have skyrocketed online and in bookstores, according to a story in USA Today.

More tidbits, gleaned from online bookseller Amazon.com:

According to the Movers & Shakers section on Amazon, sales of Obama's memoir, Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, increased 444 percent, jumping from a sale ranking of 642 to 118. It's No. 7 on the Amazon best-seller list.

Obama's 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, meanwhile is sold out on Amazon and is now back-ordered til Friday. Oh, and it's the No. 1 best-seller on the site.

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise, which includes a foreword by Obama, is No. 19.

Dick Morris' book, Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It is No. 37.

The American Journey of Barack Obama by The Editors of Life Magazine is No. 48.